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A.G. GancarskiFebruary 3, 2017

February started off with a worrying story for parents and guardians of children in Duval County Public Schools. As News 4 Jax reports, students with guns were found at three Jacksonville schools on Wednesday. One of those schools: an elementary school. DCPS Superintendent Nikolai Vitti told “THE Local Station” that parents need to be more involved, and […]

A.G. GancarskiFebruary 1, 2017

Tuesday night as Jacksonville’s ArtWalk event began, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry called a press conference on the steps of City Hall, where just a day before, a different scene had transpired. Curry’s press conference on Tuesday night had to do with reassuring Jacksonville that ArtWalk is a safe event to attend. Such assurance was needed […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 17, 2017

On Tuesday, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry addressed the latest downtown shooting at the Jacksonville Landing, which has already seen one gunshot victim declared dead. Curry, who ran on a public safety platform in 2015, has seen his rhetoric undermined by not only an uptick in gunplay and homicides, but an uptick at high-profile events downtown this month, […]

A.G. GancarskiJanuary 5, 2017

Before the television news had its first fragmentary reports of Wednesday night’s gunshots fired at Jacksonville’s ArtWalk, social media was lit with Tweets about the subject. The fascinating thing about the Tweets and Facebook posts, in aggregate: they were first-person accounts of what was going down, in real time, without the framing provided by reporters […]

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